Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett

9 reviews

sersi's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Murder, Death, Slavery, and Torture

nimeneth's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This is a somewhat reluctant 4 stars? The middle portion of the book dragged and was highly technical with the world's magic, plus there were some very gory bits that I skimmed through. That said, holy shit the ending. I figured something was going to happen with Gregor but I was not expecting specifically that. I will be grabbing the next installment because I want to know what new hijinx Sancia and Berenice get up to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Torture, Murder, Violence, War, and Blood

Moderate: Colonisation, Grief, Slavery, and Genocide

jjjreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Trafficking, Genocide, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, War, Xenophobia, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Torture, Violence, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Confinement, Vomit, Death, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, and Drug use

faduma's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Murder, War, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Excrement, Kidnapping, and Domestic abuse

saltycoffee's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Torture, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

micheala's review against another edition

3.75

This sequel is tonally very different from Foundryside. It's much darker and gorier, and the stakes are much higher. 

While the first book was more of your typical heist novel with a cool magic system, this one is about a resurrected god and attempting to prevent his world domination. 

Foundryside had the ability to be read as a standalone, however this one, well let's just say I'm glad I waited for the finally to come out before I read it - if I had to wait for two years with that ending? No thanks

On a happier note, I loved seeing the casual relationship between Sancia and Ber that has clearly been developing in the three years since the first book ended. 

I'm interested to see how the final book concludes some of the plot points and character arcs. I'm also interested to see how long of a time jump will occur between books two and three - I hope only a short one, but from the blurb I suspect it will be a long time jump. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Classism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Murder, Self harm, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Rape

eegekay's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Death, Blood, Slavery, Suicide, and Torture

dimins's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

 

4.5/5 - I enjoyed this book a lot more than the first and I’m looking forward to completing the trilogy. This book made the first book feel like really just a big set-up for the world-building and magic system. The action was fast and furious, and the world, which was already compelling in the first book, now seems a lot more fleshed out to me in this one and made me genuinely invested in what was happening. The first book set up the main characters’ backstories so you don’t get too much of that here, instead you have a better sense of how their ongoing dynamics as they work with each other and play off each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Overall, a really brilliant sequel that properly utilised everything it set up in the first book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Blood, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Rape

fromjuliereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I am not okay 😅
This book was so good. Wow. So many amazing twists I didn't see coming! I would say it leans more towards 4.5 stars because I think there were some pacing issues for me before the middle. But I seriously love these characters and this world is just so cool. 

I am both terrified and excited for the next book...

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and War